Listings
: Play School
All Falling Down by GENE zionPictures by MARGARET BLOY GRAHAM Presenters
Julie Stevens , John Golder
Contributors
: Cricket: First Test
England v Australia at EdgbastonCoverage of the last session of the fourth day's play.
Introduced by PETER WEST
Commentators RICHIE RENAUD
JIM LAKER , TED DEXTER
Television presentation
DAVID KENNING and BILL TAYLOR
Contributors
: Newsday
with Alan WatsonAn interview with a man or woman behind the headlines follows the News Summary. Preceded by Weather
Producer CHRISTOPHER CAPRON
Contributors
: Look, Stranger
Drawn to the Romany LifeBeshlie Heron is an artist who catches her subjects, shares her home with them and finally releases them in a field.
She draws field mice, frogs, beetles and wild flowers from life, but sets them in a fantasy world that has a flavour of the Romany life she and her husband lead among the Travelling People.
Executive producer JENNIFER JEREMY Director SANDRA WAINWRIGHT
Contributors
: High Chaparral: Ten Little Indians
The return of the popular Western film seriesWhen Big John gives food and shelter to orphaned Apache children, the High Chaparral is threatened with attack from two Indian tribes.
Contributors
: Horizon
How Do You Read?People worry about reading. Adults about how much and how fast they read, and children about how to do it. Schools worry about how to teach it; parents about how it is taught. Being unable to count is fashionable (remember all those public figures despairing over decimalisation?); being unable to read is a personal disaster.
Horizon tonight considers the reading process - how it works for the fluent, how it should be taught to beginners. One of the contributors says learning to read should be a natural process, almost as natural as learning to speak. And mistakes can be useful, because mistakes are an intrinsic part of the reading process, even among skilled and fluent adults.
Consider also the little girl in the programme who learned to read without being taught - when She was three. It may not happen for all children but it could change your way of thinking about reading. Narrator
FRANK GILLARD
Film editor CHRISTOPHER WOOLLEY Editor PETER GOODCHILD
Producers STEPHEN ROSE and HARRIS WATTS
A national campaign 'The Right to Read' is being launched this autumn to help Britain's two million adult illiterates. This will include a peak-time BBCtv series to encourage people with reading problems to get help and a radio series for those teaching adults to read.
Contributors
: Centre Play
The Flight Fund by PENELOPE GILLIATAngie is ill at ease in the great manor house. Her husband's Uncle Edward is charming enough but her small stepson is as uneasy as she is. He at least has a plan ...
Script editor ALAN SEYMOUR Designer JEREMY BEAR Producer ANNE HEAD
Director GRAHAM EVANS
Contributors
: Cricket
Test Match highlights: England v AustraliaRICHIE BENAUD introduces highlights of the fourth day's play.
Television presentation
BILL TAYLOR and MIKE ADLEY Producer DAVID KENNING
Contributors
: Closedown
ROBERT POWELL reads Sea Fever by JOHN MASEFIELDContributors
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